The editor presents the summer monograph issue of the journal. The monograph was chosen by a subcommittee of the Editorial Board that was chaired by the editor. The issue includes a call for proposals for the 1996 monograph. The editor also notes that this is his last issue as co-editor of the...

The article reports that vegetated buffers can let fertilizers, container media and pesticides out of water on the ground and surface. Vegetated buffers are classified as vegetated bioswale, filter strip and constructed wetland. It is noted that most types of vegetative buffer systems have the...

The article discusses how to prevent buffer overflow attack and calculate buffer sizes. It states that overwritten data may allow malicious users to exploit stack-based buffer overflows to manipulate computer programs. It notes that there would be no buffer overflow exploits if computer...

Engineers designing a continuous flow production line consisting of machines and buffers in series, have to determine the optimal sizes of the intermediate buffers. When the machines operating on the product are unreliable, this dimensioning decision becomes even more difficult. This paper aims...